PLAN670 D. in mandarin apply

Part of interesting things found in the course.

Here are the characters of disaster in Chinese, and it is about destroy of the house, either by fire, or through flood, or from both.

《誠明（二）》, "Cheng Ming (2nd)"
Early Shang Dynasty

From the book 《乙（九五九）》"Yi (Nine Five Nine)"
In Late Shang Dynasty

《楚帛書》,"Chu Jin Shu"
In Xi Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period

《古鉨》 "Gu Xi"
Han Dynasty.

So, to answer the question from the professor, I Ching is the book about astrology in ancient China, and it's a very difficult to read and comprehend.

Now:
Traditional Chinese: 災 -- the shapes are about water and fire
Simplified Chinese: 灾 -- the shapes represent fire and house.

Most of the natural disaster in China as far as I understand, it's directly supported by the military directly, with a very high efficiency.